A common case for KVM test programs is that the test program acts as the
hypervisor, creating, running and destroying the virtual machine, and
providing the guest object code from its own object code. In this case,
the VM is not running an OS, but only the functions loaded into it by the
hypervisor test program, and conveniently, loaded at the same virtual
addresses.
Normally to resolve addresses, MMAP events are needed to map addresses
back to the object code and debug symbols for that object code.
Currently, there is no way to get such mapping information from guests
but, in the scenario described above, the guest has the same mappings
as the hypervisor, so support for that scenario can be achieved.
To support that, copy the host thread's maps to the guest thread's maps.
Note, we do not discover the guest until we encounter a guest event,
which works well because it is not until then that we know that the host
thread's maps have been set up.
Typically the main function for the guest object code is called
"guest_code", hence the name chosen for this feature. Note, that is just a
convention, the function could be named anything, and the tools do not
care.
This is primarily aimed at supporting Intel PT, or similar, where trace
data can be recorded for a guest. Refer to the final patch in this series
"perf intel-pt: Add guest_code support" for an example.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220517131011.6117-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
'perf script' supports '-S' or '--symbol' options to only list the
records for these symbols. A symbol is typically a name or hex address.
If it's hex address, it is the start address of one symbol.
While it would be useful if we can filter trace records by any hex
address (not only the start address of symbol). So now we support
filtering trace records by more conditions, such as:
- symbol name
- start address of symbol
- any hexadecimal address
- address range
The comparison order is defined as:
1. symbol name comparison
2. symbol start address comparison.
3. any hexadecimal address comparison.
4. address range comparison.
The idea is if we can get a valid address from -S list, we add the
address to addr_list for address comparison otherwise we still leave
it to sym_list for symbol comparison.
Some examples:
root@kbl-ppc:~# ./perf script -S ffffffff9a477308
perf 8562 [000] 347303.578858: 1 cycles: ffffffff9a477308 native_write_msr+0x8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [000] 347303.578860: 1 cycles: ffffffff9a477308 native_write_msr+0x8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [000] 347303.578861: 11 cycles: ffffffff9a477308 native_write_msr+0x8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [001] 347303.578903: 1 cycles: ffffffff9a477308 native_write_msr+0x8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [001] 347303.578905: 1 cycles: ffffffff9a477308 native_write_msr+0x8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [001] 347303.578906: 15 cycles: ffffffff9a477308 native_write_msr+0x8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [002] 347303.578952: 1 cycles: ffffffff9a477308 native_write_msr+0x8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [002] 347303.578953: 1 cycles: ffffffff9a477308 native_write_msr+0x8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
Filter the traced records by hex address ffffffff9a477308.
root@kbl-ppc:~# ./perf script -S ffffffff9a4dd4ce,ffffffff9a4d2de9,ffffffff9a6bf9f4
perf 8562 [001] 347303.578911: 311706 cycles: ffffffff9a6bf9f4 __kmalloc_node+0x204 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [002] 347303.578960: 354477 cycles: ffffffff9a4d2de9 sched_setaffinity+0x49 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [003] 347303.579015: 450958 cycles: ffffffff9a4dd4ce dequeue_task_fair+0x1ae ([kernel.kallsyms])
Filter the traced records by hex address ffffffff9a4dd4ce, ffffffff9a4d2de9, ffffffff9a6bf9f4.
root@kbl-ppc:~# ./perf script -S ffffffff9a477309 --addr-range 16
perf 8562 [000] 347303.578863: 291 cycles: ffffffff9a47730a native_write_msr+0xa ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [001] 347303.578907: 411 cycles: ffffffff9a47730a native_write_msr+0xa ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [002] 347303.578956: 462 cycles: ffffffff9a47730f native_write_msr+0xf ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [003] 347303.579010: 497 cycles: ffffffff9a47730f native_write_msr+0xf ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [004] 347303.579059: 429 cycles: ffffffff9a47730f native_write_msr+0xf ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [005] 347303.579109: 408 cycles: ffffffff9a47730a native_write_msr+0xa ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [006] 347303.579159: 460 cycles: ffffffff9a47730f native_write_msr+0xf ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [007] 347303.579213: 436 cycles: ffffffff9a47730f native_write_msr+0xf ([kernel.kallsyms])
Filter the traced records from address range [ffffffff9a477309, ffffffff9a477309 + 15].
root@kbl-ppc:~# ./perf script -S "ffffffff9b163046,rcu_nmi_exit"
perf 8562 [004] 347303.579060: 12013 cycles: ffffffff9b163046 exc_nmi+0x166 ([kernel.kallsyms])
perf 8562 [007] 347303.579214: 12138 cycles: ffffffff9b165944 rcu_nmi_exit+0x34 ([kernel.kallsyms])
Filter by address + symbol
Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210207080935.31784-2-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Allow using PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 to synthesize the kernel map so that we
can use PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 to encode the kernel build id in the following
csets.
It's enabled by a new symbol_conf.buildid_mmap2 bool field, which will
be switchable in following changes.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Budankov <abudankov@huawei.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201214105457.543111-9-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When performing "perf report --group", it shows the event group
information together. By default, the output is sorted by the first
event in group.
It would be nice for user to select any event for sorting. This patch
introduces a new option "--group-sort-idx" to sort the output by the
event at the index n in event group.
For example,
Before:
# perf report --group --stdio
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 12K of events 'cpu/instructions,period=2000003/, cpu/cpu-cycles,period=200003/, BR_MISP_RETIRED.ALL_BRANCHES:pp, cpu/event=0xc0,umask=1,cmask=1,
# Event count (approx.): 6451235635
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ................................ ......... ....................... ...................................
#
92.19% 98.68% 0.00% 93.30% mgen mgen [.] LOOP1
3.12% 0.29% 0.00% 0.16% gsd-color libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4 [.] 0x0000000000049515
1.56% 0.03% 0.00% 0.04% gsd-color libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4 [.] 0x00000000000494b7
1.56% 0.01% 0.00% 0.00% gsd-color libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4 [.] 0x00000000000494ce
1.56% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% mgen [kernel.kallsyms] [k] task_tick_fair
0.00% 0.15% 0.00% 0.04% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] smp_call_function_single
0.00% 0.13% 0.00% 6.08% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle
0.00% 0.03% 0.00% 0.00% gsd-color libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4 [.] g_main_context_check
0.00% 0.03% 0.00% 0.00% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] apic_timer_interrupt
...
After:
# perf report --group --stdio --group-sort-idx 3
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 12K of events 'cpu/instructions,period=2000003/, cpu/cpu-cycles,period=200003/, BR_MISP_RETIRED.ALL_BRANCHES:pp, cpu/event=0xc0,umask=1,cmask=1,
# Event count (approx.): 6451235635
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ................................ ......... ....................... ...................................
#
92.19% 98.68% 0.00% 93.30% mgen mgen [.] LOOP1
0.00% 0.13% 0.00% 6.08% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] intel_idle
3.12% 0.29% 0.00% 0.16% gsd-color libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4 [.] 0x0000000000049515
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.06% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] hrtimer_start_range_ns
1.56% 0.03% 0.00% 0.04% gsd-color libglib-2.0.so.0.5600.4 [.] 0x00000000000494b7
0.00% 0.15% 0.00% 0.04% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] smp_call_function_single
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.02% mgen [kernel.kallsyms] [k] update_curr
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.02% mgen [kernel.kallsyms] [k] apic_timer_interrupt
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.02% mgen [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_apic_msr_eoi_write
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.02% mgen [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __update_load_avg_se
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.02% mgen [kernel.kallsyms] [k] scheduler_tick
Now the output is sorted by the fourth event in group.
v7:
---
Rebase to latest perf/core, no other change.
v4:
---
1. Update Documentation/perf-report.txt to mention
'--group-sort-idx' support multiple groups with different
amount of events and it should be used on grouped events.
2. Update __hpp__group_sort_idx(), just return when the
idx is out of limit.
3. Return failure on symbol_conf.group_sort_idx && !session->evlist->nr_groups.
So now we don't need to use together with --group.
v3:
---
Refine the code in __hpp__group_sort_idx().
Before:
for (i = 1; i < nr_members; i++) {
if (i == idx) {
ret = field_cmp(fields_a[i], fields_b[i]);
if (ret)
goto out;
}
}
After:
if (idx >= 1 && idx < nr_members) {
ret = field_cmp(fields_a[idx], fields_b[idx]);
if (ret)
goto out;
}
Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200220013616.19916-2-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
[ Renamed pair_fields_alloc() to hist_entry__new_pair() and combined decl + assignment of vars ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Now 'perf report' can show whole time periods with 'perf script', but
the user still has to find individual samples of interest manually.
It would be expensive and complicated to search for the right samples in
the whole perf file. Typically users only need to look at a small number
of samples for useful analysis.
Also the full scripts tend to show samples of all CPUs and all threads
mixed up, which can be very confusing on larger systems.
Add a new --samples option to save a small random number of samples per
hist entry.
Use a reservoir sample technique to select a representatve number of
samples.
Then allow browsing the samples using 'perf script' as part of the hist
entry context menu. This automatically adds the right filters, so only
the thread or cpu of the sample is displayed. Then we use less' search
functionality to directly jump the to the time stamp of the selected
sample.
It uses different menus for assembler and source display. Assembler
needs xed installed and source needs debuginfo.
Currently it only supports as many samples as fit on the screen due to
some limitations in the slang ui code.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190311174605.GA29294@tassilo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Many workloads change over time. 'perf report' currently aggregates the
whole time range reported in perf.data.
This patch adds an option for a time quantum to quantisize the perf.data
over time.
This just adds the option, will be used in follow on patches for a time
sort key.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190305144758.12397-6-andi@firstfloor.org
[ Use NSEC_PER_[MU]SEC ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Upcoming changes add timestamp output in perf report. Add a --ns
argument similar to perf script to support nanoseconds resolution when
needed.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190305144758.12397-5-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that we don't drag all the headers included in symbol.h when needing
to access symbol_conf in another header, such as annotate.h.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rvo9dzflkneqmprb0dgbfybx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>